Posted by RBoots on June 01, 2019 at 11:43:12 from (173.241.113.101):
In Reply to: Re: LOVE that salt. posted by MarkB_MI on June 01, 2019 at 03:41:18:
Mark B, if you don't, every time that wind is blowing dust off the road, there goes the clay (binder) for the gravel. If you're in an area that has a lot of natural clay, not such a big deal. If it's a sandy area, and you don't lock those roads down, see how long they last before they are chattered up and punched full of soft spots. Also not such a big deal this year with all the rain we've had, as the moisture will keep it locked down, but this year has not been normal. Maybe your county has enough money to redo the gravel on every township gravel road each year @ $7000 a mile for materials minus labor, but the one I work for doesn't. Maybe you have a lot of unused county workers that can go babysit and scrape the gravel roads every few days, mine doesn't. There is 14 of us in trucks trying to maintain the gravel roads in my county, I myself take care of 50 lane miles of gravel roads. It's hard enough to keep up with the foreign dairy farmers wrecking them, especially when they beat a new chloride application out of the road in 2 days. My township gets 2 applications of chloride over the summer, 2000 gallons a mile. The first was 2 weeks ago. That will keep them like a blacktop road for 2 months until the next application. After the second application wears out 2 months after that, we will begin our normal fall scraping regimen trying to get over everything 3 or so times before snow flies. When the binder blows away, you're scraping stones. Stones don't/won't fill holes, and won't keep a road from washboarding. Don't think I'm attacking you, I'm not. I'm just giving a view from the other side of the fence.
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